Improvement in combined washer and wringer



J. W. SHEETZ. Combined Washerand Wr-inger.

No; 205,003. Patented June 18,1878.

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ATTORNEYS.

MPEYEKH. PHOTO-UTIIOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON D113 UNITED STATES I PATENTOFFICE.

JAMES WV. SHEETZ, OF WOODSTOCK, VTRGINIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED WASHER AND WRINGER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 205,003, dated June 18,1878; application filed February 20, 1878.

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Fig. 1; and Fig. 3, a vertical transverse section of the same on line 00m, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondin g parts.

This invention has reference to an improved washing and wringing machineby which the clothes may be cleaned in a superior manner,

as the machine admits the effective cleansing of the dirtier partswithout rubbing the cleaner ones, and by which the clothes after beingcleaned, are also wrung out.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of parts,which will be hereinafter more fully described, and then set forth intheclaim.

By referring to the drawings, A represents the supporting-frame of myimproved washin g and wringing machine. B is a fluted roller that isarranged at the lower part of the frame in stationary bearings. It isacted upon by a revolving rubbing-roller, O, that is constructed of anumber of independent sections, 0 which turn in fixed end disks G Therevolving sections are made of rubber, wood, and other material, eachbeing composed of alternating larger and smaller portions that areribbed at their circumference, so that the roller-sections exert avarying pressure and influence upon the fabrics passed through betweenthem and the lower fluted roller.

The construction of the rubbing-roller O in separately-revolvingroller-sections admits of any part of the fabric being held in themachine and rubbed as long as desired, so as to enable the cleansing ofdirtier parts without unnecessarily rubbing parts; already cleaned.

The ribbed roller-sections exert greater friction than smooth rollers,and efiect the washing of the clothes in less time.

' The rollers 13 and G are revolved by suitable gear-wheels andhand-crank. Gearwheels of various sizes may be usedinterchangeably forchanging the rate of speed of the rollers. The pressure of therubbingroller and fluted roller is regulated by means of spiral springsa, bearing on the sliding journal-blocks D, that are guided in the sidestandards of the frame A.

Two wringing-rollers, E, are arranged above the rubbing-roller andrevolved by separate gear-wheels, so that when the clothes have beenpassed through the lower washing-rollers they may be thoroughly wrungout in the upper rollers. One wringing-roller turns in the slide-blockof the rubbing-roller, the other in a top box independently therefrom,both boxes being acted upon by the same pressuresprings'a, which areadjusted by hollow top screws 1), that bear on the sliding top blocks7).

Extension-pins d of the upper slide-blocks enter into the cavity of thescrews for the purpose of steadying the blocks. As the slidingjournal-block D is made of two pieces and one of the rollers of thewringer fixed and the other inovablein the same, the pressure sprin gsanswer for both machines, which are used successively by simply removingthe crank from the washer and placing it on-the shaft of thewringer-gear, so that the wringer-rollers may .be used in a convenientmanner when the JAMES WILLIAM SHEETZ.

Witnesses E. E. STrcKLEY, L. S. WALKER.

